Re: [PATCH] help.c: strip suffix only if the STRIP_EXTENSION defined

From: Alexander Kuleshov <kuleshovmail@gmail.com>
Date: Mar 16, 2016, 16:20 UTC
Message-ID: <CANCZXo5m-SF5qHxEgEUSPMaNEkcrZD07qbyfcmMurLVmBDRw+g@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <CACsJy8ARrpu=7JJ0=viuNN0pN7wae8FWRN96EqtiH9bOF_vypw@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 8:47 PM, Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 9:27 PM, Alexander Kuleshov
> <kuleshovmail@gmail.com> wrote:
>> We stripping extension in the list_commands_in_dir() to get
>> commands without '.exe' suffix. Let's do it only if STRIP_EXTENSION
>> is defined to not spend time for unnecessary strip_suffix() call in
>> this case.
>
> Unless the time saving is significant, I'm against this change. It
> makes it harder to spot compile bugs in #ifdef'd code that's only
> active on Windows (imagine somebody renames "ent" or change its type).
> If you can do something like strip_extension() in git.c, it's better.
> Or maybe just refactor that function a bit and share it with help.c

Yes, agree. Will think about this.